This year’s Bag of Beads Challenge had a lovely cohesive neutral theme spread across 16 ziploc bags. It was an elegant one, with unusual pearl cabochons (stumpers), large pearls set in copper b...
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This Summer’s Toronto Bead Society (TBS) Challenge is “Secret Garden”. It could be an original theme-based creation inspired by the book or movie. Or one could use the colors from the in...
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Something very different for this year’s Toronto Bead Society (TBS) Challenge! The hardest part was getting an idea, a theme, once we saw the contents of Bag of Beads. The craft papers with...
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Cover of White Aster of Love So that history does not repeat itself, it is worth recalling Iryna Senyk (1926-2009), the heroine of the Ukrainian people in the struggle for the freedom of Ukr...
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This summer’s Bead Challenge for the Toronto Bead Society had an interesting twist! It was topical, rather than designated color palette. To ease members into the challenge, Christina found a ...
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Time once again for the Toronto Bead Society (TBS) Bag of Beads Challenge . At least one of everything in the kit has to be used in the challenge!! My first impression of the contents of the 202...
The "Spirit of Beads: Sharing Their Stories " exhibit at the Ukrainian Museum in Canada, Ontario Branch , brought this incredible artifact (adornment) out of storage! Since Bozhena Gembatiu...
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This summer’s Toronto Bead Society (TBS) challenge was not your usual pastel palette! Marilyn Parker presented us with a spectacular sunset photo with deep moody color extracted along the lowe...
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Thanks to my Tuesday afternoon Beading Circle for challenging me to create something fresh. Our Zoom meetings are a great opportunity for beady friends to compare notes, share bead trivia, discus...
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The best way to grow as a beader is to take on challenges where one can figure out how unfamiliar stitches go together while bringing a cherished memento back to life. My friend, Naomi Smith, w...
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Eva's 'kryvulka' returned My Canada Day 2020 visit to deliver a restored 'kryvulka' to Orysia Sopinka yielded unexpected riches. To this point, all I had seen was the broad collar 'kryvulka'...
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'Krvyulka' in the round I was thrilled when Orysia Sopinka asked me if I could restore her mother’s ‘kryvulka’, a precious keepsake and a piece of her cultural identity. It was a privi...
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The Toronto Bead Society’s Mask Challenge for an Aug 12, 2020 Zoom meeting and a request for a “fantasy piece” for an upcoming bead exhibit at the Ukrainian museum converged into this Sunf...
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As I was scrolling through my news feed on Facebook, a call for submissions popped up from the Museum of Beadwork in Portland, Maine. First time I'm hearing about this one... I've visited the B...
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"Pandemic 2020" by Maria Rypan This beaded pysanka was created for the Toronto Bead Society Spring/ Summer 2020 Palette Challenge . To get members to be creative during the pandemic, beaders...
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Here are some of the key points from Maria's presentation at the Spring Creativ Festival 2015. One of the question often asked about making necklaces, other then techniques, is about the corre...
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Documentary, 53 min. Ukrainian, 53 min. English translation Three men have met in the rooftop café of an old house in Lviv, Ukraine. They sit high above the housetops, spires, and towers ...
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SPRING CHORDS FESTIVAL & CONTEST NEW DATE: MAY 20, 2015 AT 4:00 PM IVANO FRANKIVSK, VUL DEPOVS'KA, 97 20.05.15 о 16,00год.,м.Івано-Франківськ,вул.Деповська...
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It has been a while seen either Maria or I have posted on the blog, but watch from upcoming posts as Maria is going on an international road trip. As I am writting this she is doing last minute...
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Beadwork Magazine Jun/July 2014 In the Jun/July issue of Beadwork Magazine includes Maria's swag necklace . This classic style is made with size 11s and 8s seed beads. Here it is in the cla...
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Wow in just one month spring will officially arrive here in Toronto. After a long a snowy winter it will be great to see green grass and the buds on the trees. One month after the arrival of sp...
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Back in January of 2013 Maria and I were working to get her newsletter setup and published. We talked about things to include and the idea of the "ABC's of creavitity" was mentioned. I though...
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We have finally reached the end of our creative journey thru the alphabet. We started with A is Art and are ending with Z is Zing. Zing is defined as vitality, zest or a quality or characterist...
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Yarn is defined as a long continuous length of interlocked fibres, suitable to use in the production of textiles, sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving. Since I’m approaching this from the be...
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Whether you are working on a personal project for yourself, a special commission for a customer or a gift for someone special you can create a piece that is just ordinary or give it something eXt...
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